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The Suicide
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| The Suicide written by Walter de la Mare |
| The Veil and Other Poems (1921) | Link to further information |
DID these night-hung houses,
Of quiet, starlit stone,
Breathe not a whisper - "Stay,
Thou unhappy one;
Whither so secret away?"
Sighed not the unfriending wind,
Chill with nocturnal dew,
"Pause, pause, in thy haste,
thou distraught! I too
Tryst with the Atlantic waste."
Steep fell the drowsy street;
In slumber the world was blind:
Breathed not one midnight flower
Peace in thy broken mind? -
"Brief, yet sweet, is life's hour,"
Syllabled thy last tide -
By as dark moon stirred,
And doomed to forlorn unrest -
Not one compassionate word? ...
Cold is this breast.
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